Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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5) Calcarudite, medium to light gray limestone cobbles, 3"+-; fine chert (black) and medium quartzite brown pebbles 56', (3' beds). 6) Calcarudite, with interbedded shale. The conglomerate is fine pebbles, crinoid columnals common, shale badly covered, 4 or 5 conglos. 14.2' thick; total 51'. PG. 90 7) Calcarudite, medium to light gray cobbles, 3" to 5" fine pebble chert., 4' to 6' beds; 91'. 8) Covered 75'. 9) Conglomerate, 60-80% fine well sorted chert and quartzite pebbles (1/2"), 1' to 3' beds, 38'. 10) Sandstone dolomite, light gray, 3" to 1' beds, greenish and brown chert pebbles. Interval somewhat covered, 24'. 7/24/58/1 fusulines 2 bag. 11) Conglomerate, chert (browns, black) Quartzite (brown) and various shades of limestone make up the cobbles, fine pebbles are primarily chert. 5'. 12) Sandstone dolostone, light gray 3" to 6" beds a few chert pebbles. 13'. 13) Conglomerate like #11, 1' to 3' beds. 19'. 14) Covered for most part, with a few sandstones (dolomitized calcarenites?) PG. 91 exposures. Collection 7/24/58/2 at 67' above base of unit. Total 112'. 15) Limestone, light gray, locally a fusulinid coquina, or calcarenite, 2' or 3' beds. Collection 7/24/58/3. 7'. 16) Covered, 30'. 17) Limestones, light gray, finely dolomitic beds 1' to 2'. The upper 50' are dark dolomitized limestone, fusulines outline in pits. 3" diameter ammonites (Perrinites sp.?). Total 71' to top of peak. Collection 7/24/58/4 from anti hill near top of ridge at far east end of Hess Horst about 400 yards east of Sect. 41, this is just above dolomite sequence, 10'. 7/24/58/5 about 9' above dolomite. Collection 7/24/58/6 about 50 yards east of #5 [7/24/58/5] about 30' higher in section above other 20' dolomite; from anthill. PG. 92 {note: illustration: bed 18: 7/24/58/4 & 7/24/58/5 bed 20: 7/24/58/6} 7/24/58/7 - from middle of Word #1 limestone (anthill) along west side of Hess Canyon about 1 mile north of split in road. (Hess Horst - Willis Ranch Roads). 7/24/58/8 - top of Word #1 limestone at locality above. 7/24/58/9 - 60' above Word #1 limestone at locality above.